在过去的几年里。我们目睹了曾经称雄于世的企业一个接一个地走向衰落,如通用汽车公司、西尔公司以及IBM公司,这里提到的只是其中的几个。而每一个公司衰落的主要原因都是至少犯了企业的五种致命错误的一个。其实这些能伤害最强大的企业的错误是可以避免的。 第一种也是最常见的错误是利润目标过高。这方面的最极端例子就是1970年赛罗克斯公司的几近倒闭。在发明了复印机之后——在工业史上很少有像复印机那样迅速获得如此大的成功的产品——赛罗克斯公司很快就给复印机附加了一 In the past few years. We have witnessed the downturn of companies that once dominated the world, such as General Motors Corp., Sear Corp., and IBM Corp. Here, just a few of them are mentioned. The main reason for the decline of every company is at least one of the five fatal mistakes made by the business. In fact, these can hurt the most powerful company's mistakes can be avoided. The first and most common mistake is that the profit target is too high. The most extreme example in this regard is the nearly collapse of Cyrus in 1970. After the invention of the copier - very few in the history of industry had such rapid success as the copier - so much so that the company sold to the copier